Poster and Game Board
The Office Boy.
Salem, Massachusetts, 1889
Color lithograph game board
Rare Book & Special Collection
Division (107D.1)
Robert E. Peterson's Cheap Second Hand Bookstore
Philadelphia: n.d.
Lithograph poster
Parker Brothers
Rare Book & Special Collection
Division (108.9)
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Parker Brothers produced the 1889 board game Office Boy during
the heyday of Horatio Alger's popular stories of plucky lads reaching
success through hard work and determination. The player can advance
from stock boy to sweeping out and on to head of sales, trying
to avoid carelessness, which will send him back to reprimand. The
lucky winner becomes head of the firm. The poster advertises a
Philadelphia bookseller carrying children's books.
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